The shipped surfaces loaded the harness home's .env into the process environment before cordis booted. credentials-local then saw every stored key as an ambient launch override: describe reported source 'env' with writable false, and set/unset rejected as shadowed — so a key the web page or TUI stored was unrotatable and undeletable from the next run onward, and the adapter kept using the value captured at launch. The home's .env is now the credential provider's own store, read by that provider alone and hot-reloaded by it. The genuine launch environment and the invoking directory's .env (loaded by the bin) remain the read-only ambient layer, so a plain composition without the provider still resolves keys exactly as before. Proven by a real restart in the loader composition: store a key through the seam, dispose the tree, re-boot over the same harness home, and the entry is still file-sourced and writable — rotating it lands on the very next request.
ui/ — human and SDK-client integration surfaces
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Human-facing channels and the out-of-process SDK server. These are product packages: real interfaces that a person or SDK client drives.
| Package | Role | ctx key |
|---|---|---|
commands/ |
Human-command registry: shared discovery metadata, scoped shadowing, cancellation, and direct UI dispatch | ctx.commands |
user-approval/ |
One-shot user-approval mechanism, closed outcome vocabulary, audit events, and per-session approval policy | ctx.approval |
permission/ |
User-facing permission presets (workspace-write/danger-full-access): one product-level select bundling the sandbox-mode and approval-policy knobs, written through to their session events |
ctx.permission |
user-interaction/ |
Abstract human question/answer seam used by UI-backed confirmation tools | ctx.userInteraction |
tool-ask-user/ |
Model-facing ask_user_question tool over ctx.userInteraction |
(registers on ctx.tools) |
tui/ |
Interactive pi-tui terminal channel; renders session titles/events and tool intents, answers ctx.userInteraction, and hosts effect-owned plugin overlays |
ctx.tui (drives ctx.agents) |
jsonrpc/ |
Stdio JSON-RPC server for out-of-process SDK clients | (drives ctx.agents) |
app-boot/ |
Shared boot glue for the app bins: .env loading, fail-loud Loader guards, snapshot-aware config resolution, the settle-the-tree boot sequence |
(library for the bins) |
A UI integration is a client-driver plugin, not a loop change: it consumes the existing agent/* event taxonomy and the dsh-agent factory. tui is the interactive terminal front door and supplies the terminal-local ctx.tui extension service; jsonrpc serves out-of-process SDK clients, while non-interactive one-shot tasks use cli-demo. commands is the human-only discovery and dispatch plane consumed by TUI; command input and output do not become model messages.
user-approval, user-interaction, and tool-ask-user live here because asking a human is a UI-backed product affordance, not part of the providerless core spine. user-approval owns the one-shot ctx.approval decision mechanism and its policy tier; answerers remain with the channel or automation transport that owns the agent. user-interaction remains provider-neutral (ctx.userInteraction), while tool-ask-user is its model-facing consumer and interactive app packages provide concrete providers.
The runnable app bundles composed over agent-spine-demo live in examples/ (tui-demo, acp-demo, jsonrpc-demo). acp-demo and jsonrpc-demo own boot bins; the tui-demo bundle is booted by the product dsh CLI. ui/ keeps the reusable human/SDK channel plugins and shared app-boot glue; the automation-only ACP transport lives in acp/. Each front door owns its stdout policy, and a leaf cordis.yml supplies backends and optional tools.